The apartment “felt the most like home,” the NBA star says

Jaylen Brown has an 18th-century harp sitting in his living room, and that harp rules. Having a harp in your home as a newly 30-year-old man, with a professional harpist who appears when the mood strikes said 30-year-old man, is an outstanding use of free will.

“Most of the time I use my harp, it’s just me and my chef,” Brown says. A memory raced through my head: me at the end of my twenties, with a harp (broken) in my unit. And how central it would be to the social hours of 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.

Brown’s harp is not that. “It’s almost like therapy sessions,” he says.

Jaylen Brown with his cat Forky in the speakeasy of his Boston apartment design by Linda Zarifi of Zarifi Design . The project construction is by Core Group Boston , and the art advisory is by Miranda Girard .…